Merge pull request #2050 from jpadilla/issues/2045

Fix csrf-ajax link
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Tom Christie 2014-11-08 07:47:47 +00:00
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@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ If youre building a JavaScript client to interface with your Web API, you'll
AJAX requests that are made within the same context as the API they are interacting with will typically use `SessionAuthentication`. This ensures that once a user has logged in, any AJAX requests made can be authenticated using the same session-based authentication that is used for the rest of the website.
AJAX requests that are made on a different site from the API they are communicating with will typically need to use a non-session-based authentication scheme, such as `TokenAuthentication`.
AJAX requests that are made on a different site from the API they are communicating with will typically need to use a non-session-based authentication scheme, such as `TokenAuthentication`.
## CSRF protection
@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ AJAX requests that are made on a different site from the API they are communicat
To guard against these type of attacks, you need to do two things:
1. Ensure that the 'safe' HTTP operations, such as `GET`, `HEAD` and `OPTIONS` cannot be used to alter any server-side state.
2. Ensure that any 'unsafe' HTTP operations, such as `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH` and `DELETE`, always require a valid CSRF token.
2. Ensure that any 'unsafe' HTTP operations, such as `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH` and `DELETE`, always require a valid CSRF token.
If you're using `SessionAuthentication` you'll need to include valid CSRF tokens for any `POST`, `PUT`, `PATCH` or `DELETE` operations.
@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ The best way to deal with CORS in REST framework is to add the required response
[cite]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/10/preventing-csrf-and-xsrf-attacks.html
[csrf]: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_(CSRF)
[csrf-ajax]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/csrf/#ajax
[csrf-ajax]: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/csrf/#ajax
[cors]: http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/
[ottoyiu]: https://github.com/ottoyiu/
[django-cors-headers]: https://github.com/ottoyiu/django-cors-headers/